As McLane said at the time: “We can’t have anarchy. You can’t have rebellion.”

Here is the microwave version of what happened: Manager Cecil Cooper and general manager Ed Wade wanted to have a closed-door meeting with Chacon. Chacon, realizing he wouldn’t like what they had to say, told them to say whatever they had to say to him right there in the player’s dining area. Wade started cussing. Chacon grabbed him around the neck and threw him to the ground. The Astros voided his contract for insubordination. Chacon filed a grievance, asking that he be paid the remainder of the nearly $1 million the team was going to pay him for the rest of the season.

What did we learn here?

Did we learn that if you choke, er, put your hands around your boss’ throat and dishrag him to the ground you might not continue to get paid? Really, you do that before lunch and expect to receive a full day’s pay? Please.

Even if your contract doesn’t have a clause that reads “Employee loses all compensation should he put his hand around the throat of anyone in management,” you can’t get paid after that.

As for bosses out there, did you not know that if a guy tells you he’d rather you say what you have to say right there instead of going to your office for a private discussion, it’s best that you let it go and call security?

Or that if you choose to straight cuss out an unstable employee, especially in front of other employees, you’re subject to getting choked and slammed?

In the “you learn something new everyday” category, I submit my incorrect understanding of the golf rule concerning inaccurate scorecards.

I always thought if you signed a scorecard with the wrong score on it, you were disqualified. But you’re only DQ’ed if you sign one with a lower score. Accidentally go with the higher score and the error can’t be changed, even if everyone agrees that the lower score is accurate.

Thanks to Alli Jarrett, USGA Director of Regional Affairs – South Region (and several dozen readers thus far), for pointing that out to me this morning.

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Since I got to drive to Texans’ practice twice Monday — they only practiced once, but I figured I’d go early in the morning to make sure the lines were straight on the practice fields — I was able to listen to more local radio talk than normal.

Some of it can be hilarious.

John Granato of 1560 The Game, who can be funny and unintentionally funny, was the latter when just after Charlie Epps told him he had left the PGA Championship early because his daughter had given birth to his grandson last Friday, he asked Epps, “What did she have?”

Reminded me of the time my sister called our house and was told by my father that some family member had gone to the hospital and had a baby. She inquired about the child’s gender.

“Well, I believe she had a boy or a girl,” my late father said. And he wasn’t trying to be funny.

I hear his voice and get a good laugh every time I think of that one.

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I won’t even name this radio host because I like what he does and typically he is only off base only about half the time — 50 percent is darn good in these parts — but in one stretch of my listening on Monday, he said out loud (I know it’s radio, but such thoughts should be kept to oneself) that there ought to be room in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for Troy Brown and Mike Vrabel.

You would think this guy was a Southie or something.

Now, I know Troy Brown. Great guy. If I had a football team, I’d want him on it. But Hall of Fame? College Football Hall of Fame? Yes. Pro Football Hall of Fame? Uh, no.

As for Vrabel, I could copy-and-paste much of the previous paragraph, with the addition that he can be a little nutty about his Buckeyes.

This radio host wasn’t done yet. At the end of his show, in support of his argument against the Texans going into overtime against the Cardinals, he threw out the thought that injury concerns, specifically to a guy like Trindon Holliday might and should have been a factor against the Texas playing the extra period.

Let’s hope he was just being sarcastic.

As we do the guy on Sports Radio 610 last week who wondered aloud whether Courtney Lee could replace Trevor Ariza’s great 3-point shooting.